News tagged with endangered animals


Blue whales found near NY, off their usual path

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- There's a monster lurking off the coast of New York. Experts in a Cornell University acoustics program said Thursday that blue whales have been positively identified in the area for the first time.


The as-yet-unnamed 200-gram (eight-ounce) cub

It's a girl: Thai zoo says panda cub is doing well

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created May 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A one-day-old panda cub born in Thailand after years of artificial insemination and efforts to get its celibate parents to mate is a healthy female with a loud cry, a zoo official said Thursday.





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Indonesia rejects Bali plan for turtle sacrifices (AP)

Indonesia rejects Bali plan for turtle sacrifices

Biology / Ecology

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(AP) -- Indonesia has rejected a push by the resort island of Bali for rare turtles to be legally slain in Hindu ceremonies, siding with conservationists of the protected reptiles against religious advocates, ...


Unknowlingly consuming endangered tuna

Unknowlingly consuming endangered tuna

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

While most of us would never willingly consume a highly endangered species, doing so might be as easy as plucking sushi from a bento box. New genetic detective work from the Sackler Institute for Comparative ...


Rare crocs found hiding in plain sight in Cambodia (AP)

Rare crocs found hiding in plain sight in Cambodia

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created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Conservationists searching for one of the world's most endangered crocodile species say they have found dozens of the reptiles lounging in plain sight - at a wildlife rescue center in Cambodia.


Hawaii's famed white sandy beaches are shrinking (AP)

Hawaii's famed white sandy beaches are shrinking

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- Jenn Boneza remembers when the white sandy beach near the boat ramp in her hometown was wide enough for people to build sand castles.


W. Africa's last giraffes make surprising comeback (AP)

W. Africa's last giraffes make surprising comeback

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created Nov 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil.


Sea lions killed, but Columbia salmon toll rises (AP)

Sea lions killed, but Columbia salmon toll rises

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- Killing or removing 25 California sea lions over the past two years has not reduced the toll on salmon at the base of Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River.


GPS to track blue sheep and snow leopard

GPS to track blue sheep and snow leopard

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists hope to improve the survival odds of the endangered snow leopard in Nepal by venturing into the remote Himalayas to study its main prey, the Bharal or blue sheep.


Scientists launch effort to sequence the DNA of 10,000 vertebrates

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists have an ambitious new strategy for untangling the evolutionary history of humans and their biological relatives: Create a genetic menagerie made of the DNA of more than 10,000 vertebrate species. The plan, proposed ...


Over 1,000 fish species 'threatened with extinction'

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created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

More than 1,000 freshwater fish species are threatened with extinction, reflecting the strain on global water resources, an updated global "Red List" of endangered species showed Tuesday.


82 healthy sea turtles hatch at San Diego SeaWorld (AP)

82 healthy sea turtles hatch at San Diego SeaWorld

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created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The population of endangered green sea turtles at SeaWorld in San Diego grew by 82 in October when the eggs hatched on Shipwreck Beach without human help.



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